Sentence examples for foreign subjugation from inspiring English sources

'foreign subjugation' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to the act of a foreign country or people ruling over another country or people in a controlling or oppressive manner. For example, "The people of Zimbabwe suffered for decades under foreign subjugation by the British colonialists."

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After gaining independence in 1991, Slovenia — conditioned by centuries of foreign subjugation — was determined to retain local control of its prized assets.

Bin Laden and al-Qaida had an issue with the foreign subjugation of Muslims and, specifically, with a US presence close to the holy sanctuaries in Mecca and Medina.

Several Roman Catholic scholars have questioned whether Juan Diego ever existed, while in Mexico, critics have seen Juan Diego as another symbol, one of foreign subjugation of native peoples.

"Issues of identity, regional, national, personal or sexual, remain commonplace, unsurprisingly, given that most of these countries have only in the past 60 years emerged from centuries of foreign subjugation," said Valentine Willie, a gallery owner who represents many of the artists in the show.

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Once a formidable kingdom under Tomislav in the tenth century, a naval power in the sixteenth and seventeenth, and an awakening national entity in the nineteenth, it had to endure a thousand years of foreign meddling, subjugation, incursions, and outright wars before being recognized in 1992 as a distinct entity.

Our expectations of Doctor Who include effortless time travel and subjugation of foreign or alien evil genius through cunning application of high intelligence.

It was opened about 110 years ago by Greek residents, before Egyptians reacted to decades of subjugation by foreign powers by forcing foreigners to leave and nationalizing private property.

The bunkers were presented by the Party as both a symbol and a practical means of preventing Albania's subjugation by foreign powers, but some viewed them as a concrete expression of Hoxha's policy of isolationism – keeping the outside world at bay.

In many cases Japan was effectively forced into a system of extraterritoriality that provided for the subjugation of foreign residents to the laws of their own consular courts instead of the Japanese law system, open up ports for trade, and later even allow Christian missionaries to enter the country.

The United Nations has repeatedly affirmed its position with regard to the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples in General Assembly Resolution 1514 (XV), which states that the continued subjugation and domination of a people by a foreign nation violates their fundamental human rights and the United Nations Charter.

In his first television address since the election Sept. 24, Mr. Milosevic said a victory by Mr. Kostunica and the opposition would mean the subjugation of Yugoslavia, its further disintegration and its occupation by foreign forces.

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